Fiesta Bowl

Vacation — what little UCF football coaches had of it this summer — is officially over. The Knights' coaching staff and support team reports to the office Wednesday, with one week to tackle some key issues before preseason camp starts Aug. 5. The team's two most depleted position groups — wide receivers and secondary — lost two projected starters to injuries. Junior receiver Taylor Oldham is still on the mend after suffering a serious ankle injury during spring workouts and is not expected to return until October. Redshirt freshman defensive back Chris Williams is recovering from a gunshot wound to his arm he sustained two weeks ago outside of a...

Related "Fiesta Bowl" Articles

Vacation — what little UCF football coaches had of it this summer — is officially over.
The Knights' coaching staff and support team reports to the office Wednesday, with one week to tackle some key issues before preseason camp starts Aug. 5.
The team's...

Karl Benson raised some eyebrows this week when he suggested the unthinkable.
Benson, the commissioner of the Sun Belt Conference, said perhaps it's time for his league's schools to start weaning themselves off the "addiction" of big-money...

UCF football is not joining the Big 12 ... today.
But for the sake of conversation, how exactly does the Knights' record stack up against the other Big 12 schools?
Based on cumulative records from the past four years, UCF would be doing quite...

Once considered a solid bet as college football’s top conference, the SEC now finds itself facing an identity crisis of sorts. Was last season’s dismal postseason performance a precursor to what’s to come? Or just a speed bump in the road?
Here’s...

UCF has named football coach George O'Leary interim athletic director, two sources confirmed to the Orlando Sentinel.
The school officially announced the news shortly after 10 a.m.
O'Leary replaces outgoing athletic director Todd...

Thank you, Todd Stansbury.
Whether you want to call it a footprint, a blueprint or a playbook, the leadership principles have been established for the next person to follow.
How to lead a program out of the embarrassing throes of NCAA sanctions. See...

This is a big call to arms for UCF fans.
A Big 12 call to arms.
If ever there was a time for the hundreds of thousands of UCF fans, alumni and students in Central Florida to back their football program, then now is it.
"It's a sprint, not a...

Spring is in full bloom and so are football meetings. The American Athletic Conference spring meetings are scheduled to start in a few weeks in Key Biscayne, FL. We caught up with conference commissioner Mike Aresco for a brief chat about how the American...

When Josh Keeler was asked to describe the kind of UCF fan he has been while growing up watching Knights football, his first word was "massive."
So it was pretty special Wednesday when Keeler, a junior defensive tackle at Orlando Bishop...

Spring football practice is in full swing for some schools across the country with others getting back to the gridiron over the next month.
The Orlando Sentinel is taking a look at some of the key storylines for the Group of 5 conferences like...

Running off at the typewriter …
The winningest coach in college football history is once again a man who turned a blind eye to little boys being raped.
Shame, shame, shame on the NCAA for settling a lawsuit Friday filed by Pennsylvania politicians and...

Step aside, Nick Saban, and let Urban Meyer come on down.
With Ohio State's 42-20 dismantling of Oregon Monday night in the national championship game, Meyer has just supplanted Saban as the greatest active coach in college football.
I...

The 2014 college football season is in the books which means it’s time to turn our focus onto next season. With that in mind, here is my never-too early look at the 2015 top 25 poll:
1. Ohio State
The Buzz: Urban Meyer said he thought his 2014...

The UCF football offseason just got more interesting for George O'Leary.
In addition to his routine postseason evaluations, he'll start the work of identifying a new defensive coordinator to replace Tyson Summers, who is headed to Colorado State....

ST. PETERSBURG — Why the long faces, Knights fans?
All is not lost.
I am here to cheer you up after Friday night's 34-27 loss to North Carolina State in something known as the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl.
There is at least some solace remaining for...

The Memphis, BYU Miami Beach brawl highlighted one reason UCF coach George O'Leary isn't a fan of teams interacting during a bowl game week.
If O'Leary had his way, he'd prefer for UCF players to avoid all contact with NC State leading up to the...

Running off at the typewriter …
In the wake of the Big 12 getting shafted by the college-football playoff committee — in part perhaps because the conference didn't have a championship game — league commissioner Bob Bowlsby has broached the possibility of...

UCF has had no trouble finding fans to tag along on its bowl journey.
The Knights sold out their 6,000-ticket allotment to the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl, UCF associate athletic director Zack Lassiter announced on Twitter Tuesday night.
Schools are...

Mississippi State will face off with Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl.
It was a bit of surprise, with many projecting Michigan State would be taking on the Yellow Jackets.
Instead, the Bulldogs will face off with the Yellow Jackets at Sun Life Stadium...